Vimeo vs. YouTube

Google launches video upload facility - video blogs to follow?

Been playing with one of these attempting to work out how to make some kind of group community MTV type thing.

Vimeo

Vimeo

The video on the front page of Vimeo is pretty great

http://www.vimeo.com/942978

http://vimeo.com/awards/about#captured

Just watched the overall winner. Fucking saddest thing. Also amazing.

Does anyone have any favorite Vimeo videos? I'm having a good time going through stuff on the Apple TV and would love some more recommendations.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mst3k/
80 MST3K eps for 300 bucks sounds more like a physical box set than a download; vimeo's pricing model is baffling me as it is so utterly out of line with pricing anywhere but iOS. You're aiming at a target audience that likely owns a chunk of these on torrents and video and can find most of the rest on youtube for free. I wonder if they're selling any of these.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/actofkillingdirectorscut
This is a film on the front of their "browse" section (shelved, bizarrely, under "action/adventure") that has been available on netflix streaming for about five months.
They are offering unlimited viewing/download of this single film for $13... which is $5 more expensive than a month's subscription to netflix.
so the pricing is unreasonably high, the curation is very spotty and the selection is meager. Outside of the killer app of High Maintenance, what's the plan here?

http://streamdaily.tv/2014/08/28/the-strategy-behind-vimeos-vod-catalog-expansion/
so apparently they're aiming at kicking the money primarily toward creator/copyright holders, with 90% of net rental income going to those owners. sounds suspiciously like ouya for streaming: good model for creators but not very cost effective for an overly pampered viewing audience and piss-poor catalogue.
I will likely overpay for High Maintenance out of a love for the show but I can't help but be a creative monday morning quarterback and suggest that the creators of that show would've done far better by taking some venture capital, hosting a $5 season for sale and then paying back investors.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-08/google-plots-new-youtube-subscription-service-as-soon-as-this-year
y'know what; if it's fifty bucks a year and it kills all the ads on youtube i'm down. if it's for PREMIUM CONTENT fuuuuuuuuuucckkk thaaaaaaaaat

youtube's little column of recommended videos on the right side of the window typically turns up one or two bizarre ringers, i find

for example i was listening to some harumi hosono songs and among many other hosono tracks, i was suggested this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kftrSTgAx70

darragh did we ever get this sorted?

youtube only recommends me videos i've already seen with a smattering of videos i wouldn't want to watch ("the best of family guy", streams of south american political debates)

Jesus nv i had this one down as sorted but now i check the paperwork no i dont believe it actually ever was sorted

youtube keeps recommending that I watch Gavin McInnes videos, and stuff with titles like "triggered SJW gets DESTROYED by logic", and I don't know how to make it stop.

I've never gone looking for this sort of stuff so I don't know what I've done to deserve it - do you just end up being recommended these videos if you watch any amount of politics related vids of whatever kind?

Jesus nv i had this one down as sorted but now i check the paperwork no i dont believe it actually ever was sorted

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, August 20, 2016 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Fuck. Was waiting for nv to get back to me so it hasn't been sorted since

sorry, such a backlog

this is really getting to be a thing

https://vimeo.com/174553308

Song adds a nice toucg

think the latest is that this isnt sorted yet

Vimeo’s $1.38 Billion Sale Marks The End Of An Era
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/vimeo-1-38-billion-sale-end-of-an-era-254428.html

Vimeo, once the internet’s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal. The sale, expected to close later this year, will end Vimeo’s turbulent run as a public company.

For the creative community, the news is hardly shocking. Vimeo’s cultural influence has been fading for years, its pivot away from entertainment and towards enterprise software leaving behind the innovators and filmmakers who built its reputation.

Vimeo announced this week it will be acquired by Bending Spoons, the Milan-based app developer behind Evernote and WeTransfer, in an all-cash deal worth $1.38 billion. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2025, after which Vimeo will be delisted from public exchanges.

Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari promised “ambitious investments” in Vimeo’s future, citing enterprise video services and AI-enabled features. But given the company’s track record — including significant staff cuts and restrictions at Evernote and WeTransfer — many in the creative community are skeptical.

The issue here, as was pointed out to me, is that various streaming channels like Criterion are built on a Vimeo platform, so as the end of this excerpt suggests, skepticism needs to run high here.

Basically every video maker I follow on Patreon puts their stuff up on vimeo, away from the Youtube algo.

Yah, I occasionally work with a film archive that uses Vimeo exclusively. Distrust Bending Spoons as much as a distrust purported spoon benders.

Well nobody saw that coming eh? As always fuck VCs.

https://i.postimg.cc/x1QTvPt3/image.png

Not that I understand anything financial, but to me, the lesson as always is: If you value the company you built, never take it public.